Vanquish Soul Deck #773458 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Vanquish Soul monsters (Caesar Valius, Heavy Borger, Rocks) and K9 Xyz/Link pressure built from hand-revealed Vanquish Soul searches and Stake your Soul! / Vanquish Soul, Start! chains; K9 Xyz boards (Werewolf, Jacks, Ripper) and Bystial beatsticks (Druiswurm, Magnamhut) via hand-summon and banish plays
• Turn 1 (going first): Search with Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love / Vanquish Soul, Start! / Razen, reveal Attributes to summon Heavy Borger or Jiaolong, and extend into K9-66b Lantern or K9-ØØ Lupis for a board
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird and Solemn cards to break the opponent's first board, then use Vanquish Soul hand-summons to rebuild
• Recovery: Recover via Vanquish Soul searchers (Start!, Dr. Mad Love, Razen), Mulcharmy draw effects when the hand is empty, and Retaliating "C" from hand on Spell activations
• After siding: Not possible to evaluate: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan at all

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as built (three cards exceed their copy limits), so the figures below are a theoretical, structural-only read and the score is capped at 30 rather than receiving a normal Final Contextual score. The core engine is reliable on paper: 25 archetype-core copies give about 0.96 odds of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand, and 19 searcher-text cards give about 0.89 for at least one searcher (Inferred). Three Mulcharmy cards, Stake your Soul!, and the Vanquish Soul searchers supply draw and recovery, which keeps the midrange plan going through a lost board. Consistency is undercut by running three engines (Vanquish Soul, K9, Mulcharmy) plus Bystial and Solemn pieces, with only 28.6% exact-name purity, so some hands will hold cards that cannot combine. The deck has no side deck, so it has no post-side plan at all, and no combo, matchup, or meta data exists to ground the ceiling; the score is not an average of card scores and popularity did not earn points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Midrange + 0.2 Toolbox (no consistent primary; Midrange used as the base profile). Structural ≈ 57, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no side deck (-3); engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: Unclamped: 0.80*57 + 0.20*50 + modifiers(-10) = 45.6; Illegal list capped at 30 (theoretical / structural-only). Meta Power provisional, excluded.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense searcher text (19 cards) keeps the engine accessible
• Seven hand traps and several negate effects give layered interaction
• Mulcharmy draw effects and Vanquish Soul recursion support recovery
• Legal main size (55) and Extra size (15)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts on three cards (Ash Blossom, Razen, Izuna)
• Zero side deck cards
• Three overlapping engines at 28.6% exact-name purity
• Many non-engine tech and Solemn slots dilute the core

Critical choke points

• Vanquish Soul Dr. Mad Love / Start! / Razen as the only route to Vanquish Soul searches
• Single-copy Vanquish Soul Hollie Sue and Caesar Valius as key boss/recovery links

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: three copy-limit violations (Ash Blossom, Razen, Izuna); Side deck count is 0; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within TCG size rules; Card text and stats for all listed cards; Archetype core-group copy count (25) and purity (28.6%)
• Inferred: P(>=1 core card in opening hand) ≈ 0.96 from hypergeometric odds; Hand-trap and negation coverage from card text; Going-first and going-second estimates; Dimension scores D1–D11 and D14
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated sample); D13 matchup/format fit; Tournament reliability
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: meta share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck is illegal as submitted, so no normal Final Contextual score applies